Attachable match box



Oct. 30, 1928. 1,689,479

D. v. coNKLlN A ATTACHABLE MATCH BOX Filed Jan. 24, 1927 Patented oa.30, 192s.y

DONALD V. CONKLIN, 0F ALHAMBRA, CALIFORNIA.V

ATTACHABLE MATCH BOX.

Application filed January 24, 1927. Serial No. 162,958.

toA a package of cigarettes, or the like, in such manner that whenever asmoker withdraws his cigarette package from a pocket, his match box willalso be at hand.

It is a further object of my invention to provide a removably attachablematch box, comprising a leather or other flexible body with sheet-metalor other guard or enclosing frame, a retaining finger or equivalentelement being resiliently and/or otherwise relatively removable, and oneof said elements being adapted to provide a striking surface formatches.

Other objects of my invent-ion, including the use of a pivoted orsliding plate, or its equivalent, to hold an attached match bon toy acigarette package, and including the optional use of a metallic band tohold a flexible flap or flaps or equivalent closure elements in a matchprotecting-position, may be best appreciated from the followingdescription of an illustrative .embodiment thereof, taken in connectionwith the appended claims and accompanying drawings, in which i Fig. 1 isa. side elevational view, showing a match box as attached to a cigarettepackage, or the like.

Fig. 2 is a top view, taken substantially as indicated by the arrow 2,with a part of a cigarette package broken away.

Fig. 3 is a bottom view, taken substantially as indicated by the arrow 3of Fig. 1. a

Fig. 4 is an edge or an end elevational View, taken substantially asindicated by the arrow 4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a detail view, taken substantially as indicated by the line 55 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view, showing sepa.- rately a receptacularelement such as may be formed of leather or the like and incorporated ina match box such as that illustrated in the preceding figures.

Fig. 7 is a view taken similarly to Fig. 6 but showing a metallicenclosing and attaching device or frame, within which a receptacularele-ment, such as that shown in Fig. 6, may be secured.

Referring to the details of that specific embodiment of my inventionchosen for purposes of illustration 11 being a package of cigarettes, orthe like, a receptacular element 12 (a top opening thereof being shownas provided with side flapsl, 18', and a front flap 14 and a main coverflap 15) may be secured thereto by means comprising a. sheetmetal orsimilar frame 16 having a relatively movable bottom-engaging slide orlock 17.

,The frame 16, in that embodiment illustrated in Fig. 7, will be seen tocomprise a back plate 18, an enclosing band 19, a bottom strip 20, afront plate 21, rearwardly projecting side plates 22, 22 and a rebent ordependent retaining linger 23. '.Unless for the purpose of utilizingbands or scraps of sheet metal, in preferenceto uniting the mentionedparts of the frame 16 by welding, the entire frame may be advantageouslystamped from a slight-ly resilient sheet metal; and a striking surfacemay advantageously be provided, as suggested at 24, before or after orincidentally to stamping and/or bending operations suitrw able to theproduction of the frame 16 from a flat sheet.

Before attaching the frames 16 to receptacular elementsl, or the like,said frames may be advantageously buifed and/or attractively plated; andthe reccptacular elements may be secured in place in any'suitablemanner, as by means of rivets 25, extendmg through preformed or otheropenings 26 in the receptacular elements 12 and through registeringopenings 27, shown as provided in the frames 16.

In order to attach a. match box constructed in the describedananner to acigarette package, it will be understood that the finger 23, preferablyrather long and somewhat resilient, may be inserted through a topopening 28, in a cigarette package and gently forced downward,butslightly displacing the contained cigarettes, the side plates 22 beingkept in engagement with the lateral surfaces of the cigarette package;and that the slidable or pivoted plate 17, or an equivalent lock orlatch element, may then be shifted from a retracted position,y such asthat indicated by the dotted line 17, Fig. 3 to a bottom-engagingposition, such` that in which it is shown in itull lines in Figs. l and3; and it may be held in the latter position (guided thereto by a rivetor rivets extending therethrough, or by rebent edges such as aresuggested at 29, 29 or by other means) by means such as an engagementbetween a. rivet or boss 30 (provided in the bottom plate 20, or itsequivalent) and one of a pair of intertitting openings Sl, 3l', adaiitedto be alternatively engagd by said rivet or boss.

It will be obvious that attachable match boxes. oil' the generalcharacter described, may be sold either in conjnction with paci:- ages ot cigarettes or independently thereof and that, after they are suitablylilled with matches, the flaps l5, 123', la and/or i5, or as many suchtlaps or equivalen i'. closure elements as may be preferred, may benormally held down by engagen'ient beneath `the band l5), or itsequivalent. Thus the smoker ot cigarettes has merely to keep track ofhis cigarette package, the match bones being` always kept attachedthereto, except as successive cigarette packages may be employed andreplaced; but it should not he overlooked that the receptacular element12 may itsel'l' be :termed oit sheet-metal andthat the band 19, whetherattached thereto or to the trame 1G, may, it desired, be formed etelastic orA other flexible material., or entirely omitted.

'Although l have herein described a single complete embodiment or" myinvention, it should be understood not only that various features ot'-'ny invention might be independ ently employed but also that numerousmodi- .'[ications thereoic might be devised, by those skilled in the artto which this case relates, without the slightest departure from thespirit and scope of my invention, as the same is indicated above and inthe following claims.

l claim as my invention:

l. ln an attaehable match box: a match receptacular element; a metallictraine' secured thereabout; and means l'or removably securing said frameto a iaekage of cigarettes comprising a back plate carrying an outwardlyand downwardly dependent tinger and rearwardly bent side plates.

2. In an attachable match box: a match receptacular element; a metallicframe secured thereabout; and means for removably Lesaave lment,shilitable to a posit-ion beneath a ciga rette package.

3. In an attachable match box; a match rec` eptacular element; ametalilc frame secured thereabont; and means ior removably securing said'lrame to a package ot cigarettey iid tra 'iecomprisi ng aback platecarryingan enci cling hand and a dependent linger, extending outwardlyand drm'nwardly trom said. element supporting trame and side plates; andin which a bottom plate is integral with a liront plate and is providedwith a locking element which is shiittable to and 'from apaclm-ge-engaging position.

4. in an zrttachable match box: a match. rec-eptacular element; ametallic trame secured therealfiout; and m ans tor removably securingsaid trame to a package of cigarettes, said trame comprising` back platecarrying an encircling band and a dependent linger extending outwardlyand downwardly i'rom saidelement supporting trame and side plates; andin which a bottom plate is integral` with a front plate and is providedwith a locking element which is shittable to and from a packageengagingposition,- said front plate being provided with a striking surface.

5. ln an attachable mach box: a match receptacular element; a metallicframe secured thereaboutgand means tor removably securing said frame toa package ot' cigarettes, said trame comprising a. hack plate carryingan encircling band and a dependent linger extending outwardly anddownwardly 'from said element supporting frame and side plates; and inwhich a bottom plate is integral with a front plate and is provided witha locking element which is shittable to and from a package-engagingposition,- said trent plate being provided with a striking surface andsaid receptacular element being provided with a flap which is engageablebeneath said band.

ln testimony whereof, l. have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles,California, this 18th day of January, 1927.

DONALD V. CONKLIN.

